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Sunday, 28 August 2022

Office Space (1999)

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 "The thing is, Bob, it's not that I'm lazy. It's that I just don't care." It's a shame I waited so damn long ...
Friday, 26 August 2022

Velvet Goldmine (1998)

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 "I needn't mention how essential dreaming is to the character of the rock star." It would be an exaggeration, perhaps, to say...
Thursday, 25 August 2022

What If... Doctor Strange Lost His Heart Instead of His Hands?

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 "Stephen, this path only leads to darkness and the end of this reality." This episode is very good: a timey-wimey tale of another...
Wednesday, 24 August 2022

The Sandman: The Doll's House

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 "It's trerrible. We know." Watching this episode brought back long- repressed and surprisingly vivid memories of the comic bo...
Tuesday, 23 August 2022

What If... the World Lost Its Mightiest Heroes?

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 "Sir, I'm going to have to ask you to exit the donut." Another intriguing, if very short, eposode here as Nick Fury has to de...
Monday, 22 August 2022

Breaking Bad: Felina

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 "I did it for me. I liked it. I was good at it. And... I was really... I was alive." We start with Walt, miserable and freezing i...
Sunday, 21 August 2022

What If... T'Challa Became a Star Lord?

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 "You are very articulate for a duck..." "That, Sir, is very closed-minded!" It's fascinating, with a second episode...

The Sandman: The Sound of Her Wings

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 "That's all there is, little one. That's all you get." Yes, that scene... I'm a parent and it shook me deeply. I'...
Friday, 19 August 2022

The New Mutants (2020)

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 "I masturbated twice..." We're not supposed to like this film, are we? It was the last Marvel film made by Fox but released a...
Thursday, 18 August 2022

What if... Captain Carter Were the First Avenger?

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 "Who needs a plan? I have shield!" So Loki has unleashed the Multiverse. Branches now proliferate. So here's the first. In a...

Loki: For All Time. Always

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 "Only one person gets free will. The one in charge!" Wow. This is huge. So suddenly there are branches everywhere, there's an...
Wednesday, 17 August 2022

The Sandman: 24/7

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 "The trouble with stories is, if you keep them going long enough, they all end in death, don't they?" I realise that, current...

The Green Hornet, Episode 13: Doom of the Underworld

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 "My job is finished..." And so the serial ends... suddenly, within twenty minutes, but with finality. The Hornet rather efficient...
Tuesday, 16 August 2022

Loki: Journey into Mystery

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 "Don't die isn't a plan. It's just a general demand of living." Nice title. I love these subtle, or not so subtle, li...
Monday, 15 August 2022

The Sandman: A Hope in Hell

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 "I am hope..." Why does Lucifer not just counter with despair, or nihilism, or some such dreary bollocks? Never mind; I usually t...
Sunday, 14 August 2022

Breaking Bad: Granite State

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 "Just so you know, this isn't personal." Oh my. Where to start? Suddenly everything is going horribly wrong. Walt is still dy...

The Green Hornet, Episode 12: Panic in the Zoo

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 "I got the Hornet..." I'll get to the episode in a minute- it is the penultimate one, after all- but, yeah, zoos in 1940. Thi...

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)

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 "You can shovel ****, can't you? The critics are wrong. This film is a masterpiece, and easily the best of the original Mad Max tr...
Saturday, 13 August 2022

Loki: The Nexus Event

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"What an incredible seismic narcissist..." This isan incredible episode, full of twist, turns and big, big reveals along all the t...

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)

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 "This time it's gonna take more than killing me to kill me." Well, thgis film blew me away. It's a huge fanwank treat. It...
Thursday, 11 August 2022

The Sandman: Dream a Little Dream of Me

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 "What's the point of you...?" This is a pivotal episode and, as far as I recall, faithful to the comic. Much of it is set-up....
Wednesday, 10 August 2022

The Green Hornet, Episode 11: Disaster Rides the Rails

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 "Six months? Give me six days!" It's incredible how close we are to the end. Next episode is the penultimate one.And yet stil...
Tuesday, 9 August 2022

Loki: Lamentis-1

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 "What part of imminent death confuses you?" This episode seems to take things in unexpected directions. Just as we seemed to be s...
Monday, 8 August 2022

The Sandman: Imperfect Hosts

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 "He almost never murders me before lunch..." After a deep and emotional first episode, the second episode feels curiously mythica...
Sunday, 7 August 2022

Breaking Bad: Ozymandias

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 "What the hell is wrong with you? We're family!" Having started my blog on this brutal and almost perfect piece of television...

Bedazzled (1967)

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 "Good evening. I couldn't help noticing that you were making an unsuccessful suicide bid." Peter Cook, possibly the funniest ...
Saturday, 6 August 2022

Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)

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 "Gods don't have to choose. We take." SPOILERS. I've been waiting to see this film for a while, and it's a relief to ...
Friday, 5 August 2022

The Sandman: Sleep of the Just

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 "We begin in the waking world, which humanity insists on calling the real world..." For once I manage to blog the first episode o...
Thursday, 4 August 2022

The Green Hornet, Episode 10: Bullets and Ballots

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 "They are repeaters!" Another episode and, after briefly pausing to resolve the cliffhanger, another racket: this time stuffing b...
Tuesday, 2 August 2022

Pistol- Track 6: Who Killed Bambi?"

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 "We'll always have Huddersfield..." It's perfect, after all the distressing events of the episode, to finish with the Pis...
Monday, 1 August 2022

Breaking Bad: To'hajilee

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 "Don't drink and drive. But, if you do, call me." Wow. This is one of the most intricately plotted episodes of television I...
Sunday, 31 July 2022

Loki: The Variant

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 "Luckily, he believes in himself enough for both of us..." This second episode has me fascinated. The whole concept of this limit...
Saturday, 30 July 2022

Dad's Army (1971)

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 "And I must ask you to keep your hands off my privates...". Obviously, this film isn't ever going to be as funny as the TV pr...
Thursday, 28 July 2022

The Green Hornet, Episode 9: The Hornet Trapped

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 "You're a rotten shot, Michael!" And so we continue, seemingly no closer to the end, but this time with the focus not so much...
Wednesday, 27 July 2022

The Green Hornet, Episode 8: Dead or Alive

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 "They made me blame it on you!" This is more of the same, naturally, and another racket: tuis time a dry cleaning protection rack...

The Boys: The Instant White-Hot Wild

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 "My cake hole will remain open!" This is such a The Boys season finale. There's lots of fighting. There's lots of charac...
Monday, 25 July 2022

Pistol- Track 5: Nancy and Sid

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 "This isn't love. This is appetite. They'll eat him." And suddenly it all steps upma gear, intothe oenultimate act of wha...
Sunday, 24 July 2022

Breaking Bad: Rabid Dog

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 "For three hours straight, all he talked about was something called Babylon 5..." So this is it. The die is cast. From now on, al...

Loki: Glorious Purpose

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 "What's a fish?" "How do you not know what a fish is?" This  is an extremely promising start: indeed the finest ope...

Marvel and Housekeeping

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 I’m slowly catching up with the MCU films. However, this calls for a bit of a rethink on my blogging my way through the various Marvel tell...

Eternals (2021)

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 "I thought we were heroes. Turns out we're the bad guys." This is, I can't deny, the worst MCU film up until this point, ...
Wednesday, 20 July 2022

Breaking Bad: Confessions

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 "Goodbye, Mr Jesse Pinkman. Hello, Mr Credit to Society." You have to hand it to this episode. I mean, I might as well just stop ...
Tuesday, 19 July 2022

Pistol- Track 4: Pretty Vaaay****

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 "What a ***ing rotter!" This is, I suppose, the pivotal episode. It has all the seminal early TV appearances, starting with Tont ...
Monday, 18 July 2022

The Green Hornet, Episode 7: Bridge of Disaster

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 "Where will we go now?" Yet again we have a similar variation of the racketerring plot we've had throughout, including trucke...
Sunday, 17 July 2022

Deathstalker II (1987)

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 "Ordinarily, I don't mind seeing a woman get a good beating, if she deserves it..." Well, then. This line is said by the hero...
Friday, 15 July 2022

Blade: Trinity (2004)

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 "Sooner or later, the thirst always wins." So Blade is back. And now it's 2004, well into the era of Marvel superhero films t...
Thursday, 14 July 2022

The Boys: Here Comes a Candle to Light You to Bed

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 "Frenchie, are you high?" "Well, that goes without saying!" Well- SPOILER alert- that's quite the ending; Homelande...
Wednesday, 13 July 2022

Breaking Bad: Buried

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 "We are here to do a job, not channel Scrooge McDuck!" This is it, then. The final stretch of the final act begins. Jesse's v...
Tuesday, 12 July 2022

Pistol- Track 3: Bodies

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 "We're not into music. We're into chaos." We should perhaps remember, three episodes in, that this is based on Steve Jone...
Monday, 11 July 2022

Luke Cage: You Know My Steez

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 "Most of these guys wear spandex. Who would have thought a black man in a hoodie would be a hero." And so- later than expected, d...
Sunday, 10 July 2022

Pistol- Track 2: Rotten

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 "Come see us play. We're awful." This is the episode where it all comes together. Steve learns guitar- in four days, with loa...
Saturday, 9 July 2022

Stranger Things: Season 4, Chapter 9- The Piggyback

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 "I piggybacked from a pizza dough freezer..." Ooh. This was quite the finale. And I've got to write about it now. Essentially...
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Jackie Brown (1997)

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 "I think it's a gun pressed against your dick..." It's somewhat embarrasing that there are any Quentin Tarantino films I ...
Thursday, 7 July 2022

Pistol- Track 1: Cloak of Invisibility

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 "The phantom of the Odeon strikes again!" Yes, I know. I'm juggling so many shows so why start a new one? Well, at least I...
Wednesday, 6 July 2022

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Unaired Pilot

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 "Hey, you forgot your... stake..." Yep. Many years after blogging the entire Buffyverse I've finally managed to get access to...
Tuesday, 5 July 2022

The Boys: Herogasm

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 "Oh Jesus, your stretching powers!" Yeah, this line reminds me of a hilarious book called How to Be a Superhero,with illustration...
Monday, 4 July 2022

Stranger Things: Season 4, Chapter 8- Papa

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 "If we're trying to avoid angry hicks, maybe we shouldn't go to a store named The War Zone?" And so the run of uber-long ...
Saturday, 2 July 2022

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)

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 "What is your name change logic...?" Shang-Chi, particularly the Doug Moench incarnation, is a distint and fond memory I have fro...
Thursday, 30 June 2022

David Bowie- Hunky Dory (1971)

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  It's odd I've never blogged this particular album before. I've got rather deeply into Bowie over the years- and by no means ju...